Desire Quotes

7210 Desire quotes by 3487 unique authors

Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it.… — Swami Vivekananda
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the… — Albert Schweitzer
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going… — Bayard Rustin
Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or… — Henri Nouwen
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells… — Mark Twain
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. — Wilferd Peterson
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. — Orson Scott Card
The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to blame. But each… — Gay Hendricks
For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal. — Edgar Cayce
How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being,… — Francis Frangipane
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.... — Euripides
In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in… — Janet Morris
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. — Ayn Rand
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and… — Anne Bradstreet
Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of… — Esther Hicks
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired. — Mark Twain
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free. — Mark Epstein
What you feel, what you desire and what you want is not what you are. You are a consciousness. Speak consciously and speak what your… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both… — Arthur Keith
To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give… — Teresa of Avila
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything. — Honore de Balzac
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of… — Phillips Brooks

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